Barely Significant
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The Caries Management System: are preventive effects sustained postclinical trial?

Community Dent Oral Epidemiol · 2016 · PMC5324629 · PMID 26639787

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0.0555
closest p · 1.1× alpha
0.0555
boldest claim

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at the margin of statistical significanceP = 0.0555so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Over the entire post‐trial period, the CMS practice‐mean DMFT increment of 2.16 was 30% lower than the control mean increment of 3.10; however, the difference was at the margin of statistical significance only ( P = 0.0555).

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failed to reach significanceno p-value reported
The patient‐level analysis found most of the differences in the treatment effects discussed in the previous paragraph significant at level 0.05, especially all those treatment effects of main interest, whereas the practice‐level analysis failed to reach significance in most of the differences in the treatment effects.

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